Act: Inspiration

Resilience: Why so many parents today are getting it wrong

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I’ve lost count of the number of articles I’ve read about the importance of developing resilience.  It’s mentioned all over the web and for good reason, as it’s a critical coping mechanism.  Most of those articles however, are directed at developing resilience within the adult population.  Seldom, do we talk about how parents can and should create resilience in children, particularly when there are many parents out there who are doing the exact opposite of what’s required.
 

Food & agriculture – Nov 19

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•Peak Oil? What About Peak Food? A Conversation With Lester Brown 
•Revolution in Mexico City, one lettuce at a time 
•Chicago’s urban farm district could be the biggest in the nation 
•Massive deforestation risks turning Somalia into desert
•These guerrilla cartographers are mapping the edible world 

deconstructing the beast

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We like to think, as Transitioners, we are classless, but we are not…We are constructed socially to fit into tiers. No matter what class we are born into, there are always people above us and people below us. And every transaction we make or thought we have is tempered by our conditioning: to keep ourselves on that rung, or climb the ladder, and for that we have to push others down. Them, Her, that district, those people.